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Wednesday, October 8, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 33 USPS 650-640
Before the motion was passed, the senators intimated to presentations by eight of 10 Douglas and 6 Royals.
Classified Senate votes to endorse candidates
Joseph T. Collins, classified senator, said a new president would be chosen in a few weeks.
The Classified Senate voted yesterday to endorse candidates for the Kansas Legislature in the November election.
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Jan O'Neill, Classified Senate president, also announced her resignation, effective immediately. O'Neil said she resigned because of personal reasons.
The Senate voted to endorse candidates only if a candidate received 80 percent approval of the senators. A mail ballot will have to be answered by at least 27 of 30 senators for a candidate to be
ministration to recognize the group as part of the University.
However, Collins said he doubted whether the Senate could get an 80 percent endorsement of one candidate for each of the representative districts.
The Senate will vote to endorse candidates
from the 43rd, 44th, 45th and 46th representative districts and the 2nd senatorial district.
THE CANDIDATES for the representative districts are Marlin Joe Hanning, a Democrat, and Denis Miller, a Republican, for the 4th; Bret McKenzie, a Democrat, for the 3rd; Jr., a Republican, for the 4th; John Solbach, a
Democrat, and Kent Snyder, a Republican, for
Baltimore County Billionaire, a Democrat, and
Wilkie Allen Democrat.
The candidates for the 2nd senatorial district are Arnold Berman, a Democrat, and Jane Eldredge, a Republican.
Endorsements will be announced after ballots
Candidates seek classifieds' endorsement
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
John Solbach, incumbent Democratic state representative for the 45th District, said yesterday that he would support legislation to permit state legislators an official group by the KU governance system.
with the economic problems facing classified employees and said that Solbach voted against a proposed state spending lid in the last legislative session.
"Your representatives have a responsibility to put a hold on economic problems," Snyder said. "State government must take the bull by the horns."
"I feel it is important to have a balanced work environment which will help to support the operative purpose of Solitaire."
Willie Amison, Republican challenger to Democrat Betty Jochion in the 46th District, continued support of education was his most important concern.
"I don't promise anything, but I will work to
Ampersand
October, 1980
like his songs. Steve Forbert has plenty of surprises beneath the surface. Sure, the diffrent 25yearold Mississippi has his modest ways. "I'll have a go at talking, he says wrapping up a thuddingly difficult New York interview on the eve of his first Japan tour and third album," but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. *Mite on Arrival*, his heck-kinching 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music makers the likes of Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers. Then came *jackabrabbit* *Sim*, the 1990 follow-up, a helping of string and chorus-sweetened love songs, and the critics scooped their superlatives back again.
Though the public embraced *jackabrabbit* and its hit single, "Romans'
Though the public embraced *jackrabbit* and its hit single, *Romeo*'s *Tumt*: 600,000 copies页永. Forthright remains glaringly suspicious of the
change, I obsessed with the idea of the loss of innocence." Forbert told a Neusebuehler reporter a year ago. An innocent quality certainly suffuses the country boy-metcNew York City material of *Alice on Arrival*, which Forbert rehearse his road band, that innocence breaks into a fierce dance through *Virtual* and then a singer breaks into an earnest guitar fugue. Music, including his own, is Forbert's obvious delight. A Meridian Mississippi guitar teacher recalled him as "an average player, but all fired up. In 1976, Forbert left home and a truck driving into play Greenwich village coffeesthouses.
"I tried for months to get him as a client," says Danny Fields, Forberts manager. "He was always wary. But then one day he called up and said he was 'behind schedule,' soon Nemperor Records executive Nat Weiss saw the singer open a show at Trax. Then New York Times critic John Rockwell predicted "huge success, and soon." Both Nemperor contract and public accession came shortly thereafter. Forberts made his schedule.
acclaim came shortly later, followed by *Ampersand's* interview, which followed the rehearsal session, culminated
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skies and a few high clouds, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will become northwestier at 10 mph by afternoon. Fair skies with light easterly winds and a low near 52 are forecast for tonight. Tomorrow and Friday will be mostly sunny with highs in the low 80s.
The Senate voted to allocate Blacks in Communication an additional $240 for a tape recorder and cassettes for use in the group's radio show, measuring its total supplementary allocation to $900.
The Senate also voted to eliminate KU's Model UN allocation of $68.70 for postage and printing.
THE BLACK STUDENT UNION last night requested an additional $3,748.90 to their $231.75 allocation for travel expenses to send its choir to
because the presence of an older student
could be financed, but that deteriorates not yet.
She also said that it was unfair that some groups such as Associated Students of Kansas could be allotted travel money but that the Black Student Union could not.
Robin McClellan, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said that ASK was a revenue code allocation and therefore was financed differently than Black Student Union.
The student organizations' budget requests
are returned Oct. 14, Lewis Armstrong,
classified senator, said.
Debate on the motion included whether senators could accurately represent the 1,400 classified employees at the University and the National Institutes of Health who would actively support a candidate's campaign.
O'Nell said there had been no response from Bernard Franklin, Regents chairman, to a letter sent in July requesting the addition to the committee.
In other action, the Senate voted to write a third letter to the Kansas Board of Regents requesting that it place a member of the staff on the chancellor search committee.
The search committee is made up of faculty, students and alumni and was chosen by the Board of Regents.
O'Neill said the third letter would say, "I would like the courtesy of a response."
She said that Acting Chancellor Del Shankel recommended the search committee allow classified members to meet with finalists if the Regents did not approve the change.
Classified representatives would submit their recommendations for chancellor to the search committee after meeting with the finalists, O'Neill said.
Jacob Kleinberg, search committee chairman,
had he has not heard from the chancellor ahead.
The American Association of University Professors also has asked for meetings with the finalists for chancellor, and one senator suggested the groups work together.
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
; Field House. The KU women host Emporia State
get requests
were divided into two bills by the Finance and Auditing Committee. The Senate acted last night only on groups that had been funded in the past year, so not all groups not currently funded will be considered tonight.
OTHER GROUPS that were turned down for funding last night were Alpha RhoGamma, Architecture Student Council, Biology Club, Engineering Student Council, Fencing Club, German Club, KU Crew Club, KU Folk Dance, KU Frisbee Club, KU Lacrosse Club, MECHA, The Museum of the Human Than Association, University Daily Kansan and Iranian Student Association.
Other groups allocated funding last night were Consumer Affairs Association, $,1.146; Friends of Headquarters, $,294.43; KU-Y, $,191.41; Psychology Club, $,114; Student Occupational Health Center, $,103; KA-PM, $,158; Tau Sigma Dance Ensemble, $,201.50; Women's Coalition, $,164.
The Senate allocated $11,842.42 last night.
According to Bren Abell, Senate treasurer,
the senate appropriated $107,339.65.